some opty 144 + neo 2 fun

[Jamo]

hey guys

just been exploring what my new system will do tonight (not the best night, quite warm over here for once!) nothing special really but remember i'm on nforce 3 here kids and 1:1 anything over about 250 seems a no go :confused: might try flashing some more bios tomoz as well getting vcore down and ras to cas down to 3. anyways a quick screenie

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[Jamo]

Possibly the best s939 AGP boards you can get IMO. I have run my 146 in mine as high as 3300Mhz on chilled water. My 3000+ is in it now running a happy 2650Mhz with 1.4v.

It is a bit quirky, but a very good board for OCing and stability. Mine has no issues running 250Mhz+ 1:1 though. That's a lot of voltage for 2.8G, isn't it? Either way, not a terrible OC - Good Luck and keep it going!

yeah, i've noticed it takes some tweaking, but i'm quite pleased with the result, i have now found it stable at 300x9 (2.7ghz) at 1.53v, however it requires 1.6v to get to 2.8ghz. i am on stock cooling tho but will be giving an arctic cooling freezer 64 pro a whirl this weekend.

what bios are you using? i am currently on the side effect mod 1.C TCCD bios as i found the stock msi bios rather poor. i as5'ed my northbridge after i was shocked to find only a drop of paste applyed (i did expect this after reading the neo 2 thread)

my vcore seems to jump about quite abit, even upto 0.25v at times, is this usual or maybe its my power supply? its an akasa 480w but it powered a dfi sli-d and 2 x 6600gt's in sli, so its got some power to it.

[Jochenp]

My voltage fluctates a lot too (more than 0.3v some times).
I already replaced the 1800µf caps for the vcore on this board by 3300µf one's helped about 0.1v fluctating (used to be 0.4v fluctating).
Well, if you have to believe corecenter that is.

Jochenp

[Fission]

My NF3 won't stay over 310HTT 24/7 without going to higher chipset voltage, and that nf3 chip does get pretty hot, hot enough to blame reboots on at least. Are you guys both just on stock with AS5? I am trying to figure out a way to cool my nb better, but the chip is to close to the vidoecard to use an ydecent VGA cooler on. Any suggestions?

[Jamo]

yeah i'm on stock with as5, the neo 2 bios doesnt give an option to increase chipset volts, unless i missed it but i dont think so

just point an 80mm fan in its direction, will work wonders